Distinguished Gentlemen

For Brandon Hoskins and Stephen Wilson, the line between life and work is very, very thin—and perhaps nonexistent. In addition to their interior design business, the couple runs Towne Palm Springs, an eclectic furnishings emporium that’s part of the Thirteen Forty Five design collective.

When it came time for them to furnish their Palm Springs home, they didn’t have to look far.“Our style, and the style of our shop, is really all over the place. In both, we have antique, vintage and modern pieces,” says Hoskins. Wilson adds: “The fact that we have a store and a warehouse gives us a lot of opportunity to experiment at home.”

When they purchased a sleepy 1940s-era ranch house, experimentation and eclecticism were in order. “The house was built by one of the co-owners of The Sands in Las Vegas, and I understand it was a Rat Pack kind of hangout back in the day,” Hoskins says. “In 1961, it was remodeled by Arthur Elrod, who gave it a modernist aesthetic.”

Elrod was a distinguished Palm Springs-based interior designer and is best remembered for the personal home that he created in 1968 with architect John Lautner (the eponymously named Elrod House is also considered a Lautner masterwork).